Michael Leiber
Professor
Department of Criminology

Dr. Leiber received a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany.  He has been a consultant for the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for the last twenty years and has provided services to over 35 states and localities. The services provided include report writing, acting as the national trainer to juvenile justice specialists, DMC coordinators, and state advisory councils on the disproportionate overrepresentation of minority youth in secure facilities.

For five years, Dr. Leiber served on the state of Iowa’s governor’s juvenile justice advisory group (SAG) and was the chair of the disproportionate minority contact (DMC) subcommittee. He has published articles and reports on issues related to juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, and race/ethnicity. Dr. Leiber also conducted three studies on race and juvenile justice decision making in Iowa and the results of one of those efforts are in a book by the State University of New York Press.  In 2008, Dr. Leiber received the W.E.B. Du Bois award for significant contributions to the field of racial and ethnic issues in criminology from the Western Society of Criminology.  Starting this fall, he will become the editor of the Journal of Crime & Justice.      

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